Pack outing 70's style

The early 1970's were a turbulent time in the United Kingdom with terrorism from and in  Northern Ireland and the Miner's Strikes and associated three day weeks with power cuts living through it at the same age as these children.

To them therefore to be away from that on a Cub Scout outing with Akela and all your friends was special beyond say seeing the countryside which some city boys would never have seen before.

The boy second left in the brown jacket is a deadringer for me in looks and demeanour with that era being the start point of this unique blog cos it starts from the boy who wanted to be a Cub Scout.